Posts Tagged ‘TANSTAAFL’
HB 2675: Just because college is free for you »
Here are a couple breaking news items for your Monday: The state of Arizona is broke. College is expensive. If you keep making an investment that doesn't yield a solid return on that investment, you should probably reconsider whether it's a good investment. Alarming everyone with a Facebook this weekend was an article from the East Valley [...]
They’re ba-ack! $3.6 million in proposed SSF »
Over the past six months the Student Services Fee website has gone through a dramatic makeover, becoming a downright aesthetically pleasing page. It's not just about looks, though; it has also lead to the disclosure of more documents than just about any other entity on campus, and we're glad that Chairman Totlis has taken some our criticisms [...]
There ain't no such thing as a free Friday party »
Among the smorgasbord of programs approved for funded from the now $80 per-year Student Services Fee was "Friday Night Live," a CSIL program that promised to bring "an alcohol free environment with opportunities for students to gain experiences in programming, leadership development, and responsible social interaction." For this service, students [...]
Apparently, I'll be "subsidizing" »
There's a lot to take issue with in this outrageously slanted article, but it does provide a useful quote: "If the student newspaper has to exist only on what it can generate on advertising revenue, why should an outside professionally run newspaper with professional marketing and sales people be subsidized?" Kathy Lawrence, director of student [...]